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Click here for updates on "Building the Vision" EVENT CALENDAR Special Events Calendar 2007-2008 Cash bar, light hors-doeuvres, magnificent music, beautiful venue, great community! |
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APPLE TREE ARTS RECEIVES AWARD! |
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Apple Tree Arts, a non-profit community music has received the Musikgarten Exemplary Program certificate from Musikgarten, the preeminent early childhood music education company. The certificate is given annually each spring to celebrate Musikgarten teaches who are benefiting children and families in their communities through a breadth of Musikgarten curricula. “We are thrilled to achieve this major milestone for the work of our early childhood music department,” noted Education Director Jan Barlow. “The program gives us the tools to teach children and their parents the benefits of early childhood music and movement,” she explained. Founded in 1989, Apple Tree Arts provides students with a solid music foundation through its early childhood education curricula, private music instruction and ensemble programs. Yearly the school teaches early childhood music to about 1000 children through its course offerings and outreach program to 40 preschools and day care centers in central Massachusetts. Courses also are taught at ten Head Start sites. The school offers instrumental music lessons and ensemble programs to more than 135 children and adults and has over 17 private music faculty members. This year the school expanded its ensemble offerings to include student as well as adult ensembles. The school offers different ensembles for a variety of instruments and wide range of musical abilities. “Ensembles allow children to learn musical and team building skills through a social cooperative effort,” said Donna Blanchard, executive director of Apple Tree Arts. “ Apple Tree Arts is a non-profit 501 (c) organization whose goal is to foster a lifelong appreciation of the arts by providing high-quality music and dramatic arts programs for individuals of all ages. For more information about Musikgarten, please contact 1-800-216-6864 or visit http://www.musikgarten.org/ |
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| FUNDRAISING at APPLE TREE ARTS | |||
| Apple Tree Arts is growing each year. In order to keep going, fundraising accounts for about 10% of our budget. This year we have two great opportunities to help! Previous board member Ed Dinaro wants you to donate any item with an original value of at least $20 and he will sell it on eBAY, proceeds to benefit Apple Tree Arts. Anytime! Clean out those attics, clean for the holidays, and think of Apple Tree Arts! All donations are tax deductible! And you are helping kids, adults and your community keeping our vital arts organization alive! Also, we are selling prints of the Good and Gracious Green, by Stephen Robie. The original painting hangs in the Municipal Center. Scenes of Grafton past and present, including our great Fourth of July concert, are depicted in wonderful detail by this talented Grafton artist. Small prints are valued at $25 and large at $35. It’s a great holiday gift item for any Grafton resident, past or present! You can purchase prints or you can drop items off for eBay, anytime at the Apple Tree Arts office at 27 Millbury Street. You can call the office at 508-839-4286 for more information. |
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| FACULTY NEWS | |||
We welcome Kathy Garner Iovieno to our flute staff! She graduated from Boston Conservatory with a BM in flute performance, and received her master of music performance in flute from BU. Kathy has extensive teaching experience, and has just returned from 12 years of overseas mission work. She is teaching our adults students, as well as the adult flute choir. Ed Clough has also joined our faculty, teaching brass: trombone, trumpet, baritone, and French horn. He studied music performance at Boston University and at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse. While at Boston University, Ed received instruction in the art of brass chamber music from the members of the Empire Brass Quintet.He has also performed with the Canadian Brass and the New York Philharmonic Brass at Great Woods Performing Arts Center. Ed is a founding member of Boston Brass and his sense of style and theater has been an integral part of the spectacular development of this world-class ensemble. Catherine Flayhan and Judy Allardice have joined our theater faculty, both being seasoned theater teachers. Welcome to all! |
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